About Croftware

The word 'croft' is an old Scottish term that
refers to a tenant farm or workplace.
"The first evidence that can be found of small tenants holding
directly of the proprietor is in a rental of the estates of Sir D.
MacDonald in Skye and North Uist in 1715. Protected crofters
are also members of a crofters' township, consisting of tenants of
neighboring crofts with a shared right to use common pasture."

In the modern era, Croftware is a group of independent
contractors loosely connected by common interests and producing
goods and services on a project basis.

Croftware, LLC is a virtual company providing vital services such
as marketing management and consulting, software engineering, identity management, and
other consulting
services linking subject matter
experts with others who have need of their services.

About our Principal, Dan Nickell

Dan
Nickell was most recently
the Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for
Anonymous Recognition Technologies, Inc., Washington DC,
leading this innovative identity management company through
its formation, product development, and marketing.
He has extensive domestic and international
experience in industrial and federal-level
intelligence and reconnaissance systems, corrections and law
enforcement, telecommunications systems, and electronic
security

disciplines. Dan has extensive
writing and lecturing experience in corporate management
issues, business development, and proposal management.
He is the author of a bestselling book on computer
applications, technical works, and management articles.

As an executive with the National
Biometric Security Project (NBSP), he was responsible for
all activities conducted in NBSP’s Test, Research, and Data
Center (now the BSI, LLC).These include biometric testing and evaluation,
biometric management and technical training, data services,
research and acquisition support.
He designed the human factors testing facility for
the scenario testing of biometric devices and developed the
software used to collect device performance automatically.

Earlier, he led the new business
development activities for the Asset Protection Systems
Division, Radian Inc., (now DRS Technologies), and managed
the Division’s Applied Biometric Laboratory and led in the
development of new security solutions using an integration
of biometric technologies with other access control systems.
Designed software
solution for a biometric-based visitor management system in
a New York state correctional facility.

In addition to extensive business
development experience, he responsible for the design and
technical development of innovative solutions for
systems-level security-related products and large-scale
security requirements.Designed the original functional prototype of the US
Air Force “Smart Gate,” an integration of various advanced
security components to automate both vehicle and driver
identification for access control to Air Force bases; also
designed and implemented a full spectrum of systems and
services for advanced identity management and inmate access
control functions for US correctional market.
Dan holds a US
patent on an advanced air-handling system designed to
safeguard critical office facilities, such as embassies and
governmental offices, from a variety of airborne gas,
chemical, and radiological attacks.
He designed and was granted a preliminary patent for
a self-contained handheld biometric identifier performing
identification-on-card and transmitting identification
verification to RF card readers.

As an independent
consultant, Dan founded NET Inc., and guided client
companies in identifying, developing, pursuing, winning,
negotiating, and
executing new projects with the U.S. federal and foreign
governments.In
March 1990, he founded the national Operations Security
Professionals Society (OPS).
He developed and implemented the information security
policies and programs for the CENTEL telephone company;
developed an expanded business development process and
marketing procedures for Quanta Systems, Gaithersburg, MD;
formalized the marketing processes for Shorrock Security
Systems, Hanover, MD; and, among many other projects, performed an extensive market research
survey for Eyedentify, patent holder of retina scanning
technology.

Previously, Dan served a 20-year career
as an Air Force Signals Intelligence officer.

Dan has an MBA from George Mason University and
previously earned a BA from Michigan State University in
communications research, with a completed major in Russian
from Syracuse University. His academic work also includes
graduate studies in statistics, and undergraduate work in speech,
theater, secondary education, and speech pathology.